Troy New York USA-1973: A Man With Facial Hair Laughs And Smiles While Seated

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationTroy, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Troy New York

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A Man With Facial Hair Laughs And Smiles While Seated — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Troy, New York, 1973, showing a young Caucasian man with a mustache and sideburns laughing and smiling while seated indoors. He wears a brown V-neck sweater over a purple and white striped collared shirt. The scene is dimly lit, likely at night, with a floral-patterned window or door visible behind him. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, capturing a candid moment of joy and nostalgia. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects exploring 1970s American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122684628

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1012 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: swimming
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Troy, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s U.S. home-movie requests needing a candid indoor adult reaction, family gathering insert, or personal-memory beat from Troy, New York.
Period detail: The man's mustache, sideburns, brown V-neck sweater, striped collared shirt, and floral interior surface may show early-1970s domestic style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the man's relaxed laughter, squinting smile, and direct response to someone holding the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated or leaning adult man, mustache, sideburns, brown sweater, purple striped collar, floral-patterned panel, doorway, and dark room.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, strong grain, dim indoor exposure, color shift, and slight handheld movement consistent with home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief reaction insert, memory cutaway, or intimate transition within a sequence about family, friendship, or 1970s interiors.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it offers a small domestic view of adult social life and casual dress in Troy, New York, without proving a specific event.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions should be assessed separately from footage copyright licensing.
Research search match: Search matches include 1973 Troy New York home movie man laughing, 8mm indoor mustached man, 1970s family gathering reaction, and vintage seated adult smile.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Troy 1973 interiors, then broader 1970s home-movie scenes of adults laughing or socializing.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1973 Troy, New York home-movie frame, a mustached man in a brown sweater laughs near a floral-patterned interior surface. — A mustached man laughs while leaning close to the camera indoors.

The man turns slightly to the side while smiling in the dim room.

The 1973 home-movie frame shows the mustached man leaning forward, smiling with one eye partly closed beside a patterned interior surface. — The man leans toward the camera, smiling with a squinting expression.

In this 1973 Troy, New York frame, the man faces the camera from farther back, wearing a brown sweater and striped collar in a dark interior. — The man stands or leans back from the camera in the dark interior.

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